South Burlington High School Junior Sarah Fisher plays both basketball and ice hockey, despite both happening in the same season.

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Lauren Read
Free Press Staff Writer

No stranger to buzzing from one game to another, Sarah Fisher found herself in a genuine pickle last winter.

Fisher's South Burlington-Mount Mansfield co-op girls ice hockey team was in the middle of a scoreless tie with rival Essex High School. But she needed to leave - for basketball practice. So the two-sport athlete told her coach, Mickey Toof, that she was running out of time and would likely miss the third period.

"I said, 'you can't leave until you score two goals,'" Toof recalled. "We came out, she scores two goals, comes back to the bench and says, 'Can I go now?'" ...